St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
SUNDAY SILHOUETTES.

A correspondent asks the GLOBE to
define the material difference between
tariff revision and revenue reform. His
question is suggested by interviews with
members of congress recently published
in the GLOBE, in which some expressed
themselves in favor of tariff reform
only and some for revenue reform only.
Our correspondent will readily under
stand the difference when we say there
could be tariff revision without a reduc-
ton of revenue, and there could
be reduction of revenues with
out revision of the tariff.
The tariff might be so readjusted that
by removing the duty from one class of
articles to another there would be re-
vision without reduction. The internal
revenue might be abolished, thus max
ing a material reduction i'll the revenues
without touching the tariff at all. SO
our correspondent can readily see that
tariff revision and revenue reform may
be twOdistinct propositions, though they
naturally seem to go together in the eX-
listing condition of affairs.
Our London cablegram brings the
gratifying information that President
CLEVELAND message has been help
to the GLADSTONE party in England.
Lord HARRINGTON is organizing the
Tory party on protection basis. and
Mr.. CLEvELAND's ringing arguments
against protection are making converts
for the GLADSTONE party
The Tories were protectionists in the
beginning. The Tory colOnistS in this
tea tax by the British government. The
in
sitiOn to the assertion of the Tory doc
trine of a protective tariff. To-day the
Tory party in England and the Repub
lican party in the United States occupy
the same relations. Each is the party
of ariStOcracy, the party of monopoly
and the party advocating protective
tariff.
The French are making a pretty good
Stagger after all in initiating American
republcaniSm. The attempted aSSaSsi-
nation of NJ. FERRY is. unfortunately,
too much in the direct line of American
political methods.
~
The croakers who were predicting
that there wouldn't be ice enough this
winter to build an ice palace quit croak-
ing yesterday. The ice king knows his
Ou'IiIOoo. anu hIiClI lliN tiiiiC toiiNp
around for his subjects to build him
palace his majesty will have the ma
terial on hand.
This is unhealthy weather." is re
mark that has been frequently heard on
the streets during the long spell of mild
winter that we have had. But the re-
ports of the health department do not
verify the statement. On the contrary,
the health of the city has never been
better than during the last month. The
fact is, there is no unhealthy Weatheriin
Minnesota. Whether cold or warm.
mild or bliZzardy, seasonable or unsea-
sOnable, the death rate keeps at about
the same, which in st. Paul is the lowest
of any city on this continent.
Now everybody is grumbling about
the slots in the cable line. In their de-
sire to give ample room for the eXpan-
sion and contraction of the iron which
is expected to be caused by the extreme
conditions of cold and heat in this eli
mate, the cable line builders left so
much space that the calk of a horse
shoe can be caught III the opening, and
thus the shoe is sometimes torn from
the horses foot. In this respect the
slot is nuisance. In another respect
it is benefit. 1t enables the police to
enforce the ordinance against fast driy-
ing on the street crossings.